Conference highlights: Mental Health Summit Vancouver

Staff | January 4, 2017

What are some of the causes of mental-health issues and how can employers recognize when an employee is having difficulties? At the 2016 Mental Health Summit in Vancouver on Dec. 13, experts provided insight into mental-health issues at work and offered up actionable takeaways for how to address them and create a mentally healthy and productive workplace.

The promises and perils of personalized medicine and antidepressants
While there’s a lot of talk about how personalized medicine and biomarkers could improve treatment for people with a range of diseases, the technology isn’t yet ready for prime time, Dr. Raymond Lam, a researcher and professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, told last month’s Mental Health Summit in Vancouver.Read more

Tips for supporting employees with PTSD
Post-traumatic stress syndrome can affect anyone, whether a first responder who faces traumatic events on the job or someone who experiences an emotional shock such as a car crash, sudden death, divorce or a crime incident. A panel of experts at the recent Mental Health Summit in Vancouver shared suggestions for how employers can better support employees with PTSD.Read more